Hi all, After much deliberation and measuring I finally bit the bullet and purchased a 5kg Safefill bottle from Cannock Caravan Accessories via Ebay. Very impressed with speed of delivery. Bearing in mind I measured my triangular gas bottle cupboard 47 times, when I tried it, it wouldn't fit. The upper shelf was high enough, but the step at the bottom wouldn't allow enough tilt, so out came the shelf with much splintering ( I'd forgotten about the hidden screw at the back of the shelf ) doh! It's bound to fit now after all my measuring-Nope- the bulge in the sides of the bottle won't allow the base of the bottle to sit on the floor. I can't cut the bottom step of the cupdoard away 'cos there'll be a gap at the bottom of the door. Out with the router and shave 10mm from the inside walls (the cupboard unit is made from 15mm laminated ply) the bottle still won't sit on the floor!!! Out with the multi-tool cut 10mm from the inside of the step. Success the bottle sits on the floor of the cupboard and I can shut the door. So with success of the bottle now fitting in the cupboard, off I went to find an LPG supplier. Loaded the App for fillLpg onto my smart phone, it kept coming up with suppliers in the forest of dean, I live outside Cardiff for Christ's sake I don't live in the Forest. Back to t'interweb in the house, found Asda's at junction 30 / M4 at 52.7 per litre, great it's only 12 miles, off I went. Found the pump, fitted the nozzle, read instuctions on pump, press and hold nozzle, press trigger on nozzle, nothing happens, then there's an almighty cloud of gas, let go of trigger, WTF!!! okay read the pump try again! how hard can this be, still no gas, another cloud of gas fills the van, it must be me, people are doing this every day, try again press button ( white light suddenly goes off in my head open the valve on the bottle 'cos otherwise nothing can in, eejit!!! ) Now we're cutting coal- filled the bottle,pump cut off, check visual display on pump £4.64p Yeah Result! 5kg bottle full of gas compared to the last bottle I bought 3.9kg for £20.99p. Got to clean all the dust out from the routing now.
Thankyou to all the contributors on here re: the Sfafefill bottles.
So the conclusion I have come to is- no matter how many times I measure and how many times I read the pump instructions, I still get it wrong.
Regards,
Ken.